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  New CPU Build.. Need Help

  Posted by Allan Moore on February 17, 2009 at 6:15 pm

  Greetings, I am building a new system to ( in both SD and HD) Capture, Edit, Render and produce to media using CS4 premiere pro, after effects, sound booth…etc. My main questions are about graphics cards. I am currently considering the Quadro FX 3700- do i need to spend $800 or is that not enough? Please feel free to comment on the other system pieces. Also, please comment on the best configuration for hard drives…. raid?? or what?

  System info:
  Case ( Nzxt Tempest Gaming Tower Case w/420W Power Supply Black )
  Power Supply ( 650 Watt — Corsair CMPSU-650TX Power Supply SLI Ready )
  Processor ( Intel Core i7 Processor 920 (4x 2.66GHz/8MB L3 Cache) )
  Processor Cooling ( Asetek Liquid CPU Cooling Fan System Kit )
  Motherboard ( EVGA X58 SLI Intel X58 Chipset CrossFire and SLI Supported w/7.1 Sound, Triple-Channel DDR3, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, 3-Way SLI PCI-E MB 3-Way SLI )
  Memory ( 12 GB [2 GB X6] DDR3-1333 Triple Memory Module Corsair XMS3 Dominator w/DHX technology )
  Video Card ( Quadro FX 3700 )
  Hard Drive ( 500 GB HARD DRIVE [Serial-ATA-II, 3Gb, 7200 RPM, 16M Cache] )
  2nd Hard Drive ( 1 TB Western Digital 7200 rpm )
  Sound Card ( 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard )
  Network Card ( Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100) )
  Flash Media Reader/Writer ( 12-In-1 Internal Flash Media Card Reader/Writer Black )
  Operation System ( Window Xp Pro )

  Thanks
  Allan

  Sébastien Périer replied 17 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Allan Moore

  February 17, 2009 at 7:28 pm

  what do you think about the black magic intensity pro? How does is compare to other brands like the aja?

  Thanks
  Allan
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  Sébastien Périer

  February 18, 2009 at 11:55 am

  BM Intensity pro is nice as long as you are in the prosumer world. It’s biggest flaw is not having SDI inputs, which is kinda mandatory for professional work (if you are about to work with Beta tape recorder for exemple).

  I couldn’t agree more with Dave with the external raid. Raid 0 allows you faster data rate, and a 3 to 4 disk array is mendatory for uncompressed HD capture. 4 disks of 500gb costs nothing nowadays. I’ve built up a 4disk array in my desktop PC with a P5B Deluxe motherboard thanks to her 7 sata controllers.

  If you have budget an external raid array supporting raid 5, it is even better. Raid 5 is the combination of Raid 0 and Raid 1. As we’ve seen Raid 0 allows faster data rate, but if 1 disk of your array goes south, you loose everything. Raid 1 arrays mirror your data. If you have 2 500Gb disks, you will only have access to 500Gb, the other disk will be a carbon copy of the first one.

  So Raid 5 is best of both world, allowing stripping for faster data rate and mirroring for security.

  And for your graphic card, if I assume that you won’t do heavy 3D, i guess a high end 1gb video card for gaming will be enough (avoid the x2 series).

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